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10 common backend tasks and how to automate them

Anmol Baranwal on March 24, 2025

While building the backend, developers are often involved with a lot of repetitive tasks like configuring APIs, handling service discovery and scal...
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Veilgen Security

This is a great breakdown of backend automation! Automating repetitive tasks is a huge productivity boost, and it's interesting to see how Encore streamlines so many aspects, from API communication to observability

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Oscar

This is one of the first tools that I've seen in the past few months that I actually might consider using. Pretty cool!

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Anmol Baranwal

Awesome Oscar! I'm happy this was useful. I've been writing about Encore for quite a while :)

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Marcus Kohlberg

This is awesome!

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for reading! 🔥

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Aavash Parajuli

Thank you Anmol.

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Zachary Loeber

Ok, I may have to check out encore now.

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Anmol Baranwal

I'm really glad it was useful. You can also read this if you need a step-by-step guide on how to start using it. I evaluated Encore based on type safety, performance, DX, scalability and extra benefits.

Thanks for reading, Zachary! 🔥

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Shrijal Acharya

Good one, Anmol. 🙌

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for reading Shrijal! Appreciate it. 🔥

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Bonnie

Informative article, Anmol.

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for checking this out, Bonnie! 🔥 Really appreciate it.

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Yash Kumar Saini

Nice explanation, @anmolbaranwal by the way the images and gif are created or you used some excalidraw type editor

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks Yash! The images are mostly from the docs. If I ever create something myself, it is mostly in Adobe XD (as I've been using it since college).

Still, I'm a fan of hand drawn styles in Excalidraw.

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Harshada Javeri

Cool!

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Rock Brown

This is not an article. It is an advertisement.

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Peter Vivo

Even it is more or less advertisement. It is a great one because give a clear picture solwing a day by day complex problem with this promising application. I found the self documentation part is really important, because a complex application have a lot of misunderstanding cause by missing documentation plus high dev teams fluctuation lead to impossible mission - maintain a legacy application.

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Anmol Baranwal

You might feel that way, but I've genuinely tried my best to provide as much value as possible. If you think there's anything that can be improved, please share your feedback and I will try to do better next time.